Fighting off Winter Sickness Naturally #ZarbeesCough

I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consultingfor Zarbee’s Naturals. I received product samples and a promotional item as a thank you for participating.

Of course, right as I start kicking the blog back into gear with new weekly features –*it* happened. Everyone in my house got their first winter sickness within the same couple of days. Three weeks later and we’re *finally* getting over it. It’s annoying to feel sick as an adult but for the most part we were able to keep working right through it and just added in some extra Vitamin C, Echinacea and Elderberry. I think the toughest part really is when the kids get sick.

We had a few days of fevers-nothing serious, but enough that it was bothering both girls. The main element of this sickness was the cough and chest congestion. My poor girls would cough all day long only to spend their nights awake and coughing and trying so hard to clear their airways. The lack of sleep made for a vicious cycle and when a little body gets sleep deprived it has to work even harder trying to fight off sickies. Ten days of humidifiers, steam showers, vapor rubs and other cold and cough remedies and my girls we still not sleeping through the night and I had been running on an empty tank for a few days already. Then, the Zarbees came in the mail.

Zarbee’s is a natural children’s medicine created by Dr. Zak Zarbock that utilizes the power of dark honey. If you check out the back story on their business, you’ll see this little tidbit: “With the help of my test subjects (aka our four sons), I was able to create a great tasting, all-natural, vitamin-enhanced, safe and very effective product, Zarbee’s All Natural Cough Syrup, specifically designed to keep mothers from going insane!” Because really, if mom’s happy, everyone’s happy, right?

I laughed a little when it came because I had actually forgotten about it altogether and it couldn’t have had better timing. My first reaction after actually looking over the products was how relieved I was to see a product safe enough for babies as young as 2 months. (Don’t worry, there’s no honey in this one!) It’s so hard to watch your baby suffer and have nothing commercially available to help her.

The Zarbee’s Naturals Children’s Nighttime Syrup also contains a small dose of melatonin so it helps your kids get the sleep they need to bounce back and fight of the rest of the cold. I slip the dose with about 2 ounces of milk and gave it to my toddler about a half hour before bed. She’s a smartie so we have to go the sneaky route for medicines. 😉 After a few days I noticed my her perking up during the day and the cough was mostly gone. It took a few more days to get the nighttime coughing to go away and after not using the Zarbee’s medicine for the last two days, both girls were up taking turns with coughing fits again last night.

Needless to say, there will be more “special milk” for bedtime tonight. 😉

I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consultingfor Zarbee’s Naturals. I received product samples and a promotional item as a thank you for participating.